Last week was Edwardsville Primary School’s chance to experience an audio visual workshop at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Over 40 children attended the full day workshop. They brought in lots of stories that their relatives had told them, they took photographs of one another in costumes related to […]

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery held the first audio-visual heritage workshop with Ynysowen Primary School as part of the HLF funded Merthyr’s Black Gold project. During the workshop the children drew items related to their coal heritage, recorded stories that their relatives had told them and […]

Vision Fountain have started a project about Merthyr’s Coal Heritage called “Merthyr’s Black Gold” with project partners Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and the Heritage Lottry fund. Four primary schools and two scout troops in the area will be actively involved in the project. We will be teaching the young learners how […]

We’ve been very busy. We had a great opening of the “Our Mountain” project at the Parc and Dare Theatre in Treorchy. The Welsh Gov. / Arts Coucil Wales’ Lead Creative scheme (Creative Collaboration) project was openied at thwe 105 year-old old miners theatre with all the young participants, their […]

Digital artists, Richard Jones, aided by Vision Fountain, has just held audio visual workshops at the British Motor museum, where children were encouraged to draw their wown car that we oput them inside and then lauched them into cyber-space!

Wales online and Wales On Sunday featured our project with the Winding House Museum commemorating 50 years since the closure of Elliot Colliery http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rats-cockroaches-characters-friends-crushed-13824915 All quotes from the article are taken from the interviews we conducted with the ex-miners: Rats, cockroaches, characters, and friends crushed to death – the extraordinary […]

Great morning with the old miners of Elliot Colliery to celebrate their contribution to the community. The Winding House Museum, New Tredegar featured a digital installation from Vision Fountain as part of the exhibition to clebrate the 50th anniversary of the closure on the mine:

Wales’ largest wind farm will open today on the top of Rhigos Mountain-side at the end of the Rhondda Valley. Creative director, Richard Jones, shot part of his Arts Coucil Wales backed Energy+Notion project there. Here’s an extract:

Vision Fountain have been awarded a small grant from Welsh Government / Arts Council Wales through their Creative Collaborations partnership scheme. We are excited to be creating a mixed media film with the children from Rhigos Primary and Pen-Pych Community School, right at the end of the Rhondda Valley. The […]